The Latest Breaking News from Uganda

Groups to Biden: Drop prayer breakfast

Freedom From Religion Foundation rallies opposition to participation in right-wing evangelical networking event

Salon · Jan 17, 2023

Suspected Islamists kill at least 5 people in east Congo church bomb attack

At least five people were killed and 15 wounded in a suspected Islamist militant bomb attack during a Sunday service at a Protestant church in the eastern Congolese city of Kasindi, on the border with Uganda, the military said.

Reuters · Jan 15, 2023

Uganda drops Chinese firm from railway deal, eyes Turkish rival

Uganda has terminated its contract with a Chinese firm China Harbour and Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) to build a railway to the Kenyan border and is now considering a deal with a Turkish company, a senior official told Reuters on Friday.

Reuters · Jan 13, 2023

Uganda court quashes part of law used against government critics

A court in Uganda on Tuesday quashed a section of a communications law that has been used to prosecute government critics, journalists and writers, including two who fled to exile in Germany, its judgment said.

Reuters · Jan 10, 2023

Ebola outbreak in Uganda coming under control, says Africa health body

The CDC, Africa's top public health body, says that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda is coming under control with no new confirmed case reported in the country for the last 39 days. But it needs to pass 42 days to be considered Ebola-free.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 6, 2023

Children among at least ten dead in Uganda New Year crowd crush

At least ten people died, most aged between 10 and 20, in a shopping mall crush as revellers rang in the New Year in Uganda's capital, Kampala, according to local police.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 2, 2023

Boy, 10, among nine people killed in Ugandan New Year’s Eve fireworks crowd crush

Fatal incident occured at shopping centre in capital Kampala as people gathered to celebrate 2023

The Independent UK · Jan 1, 2023

Nine suffocate to death in Ugandan New Year firework crush - police

At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year's firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda's capital, police said.

Reuters · Jan 1, 2023

Uganda’s Appears To Have Defeated The World’s Latest Outbreak Of Ebola

Uganda Beats Ebola 2022

Zenger · Dec 29, 2022

Polygamous dad with 102 children tells 12 wives to go on pill as he struggles to cope

Musa Hasahya, 67, who lives in Kenya with his nine wives, has now told them to on the pill as he struggles to cope with their enormous brood of 102 kids and 568 grandchildren

Daily Mirror · Dec 27, 2022